A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every

A set of football matches is to be organized in a "round-robin" fashion, i.e., every participating team plays a match against every other team once and only once. If 2 matches are totally played, how many teams participated?

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Answer/Solution

2

Steps/Work

2 ways to solve this problem..
summation(x)=n(n-1)/2
n(n-1)/2=2;
n^2-n-4=0
Ans : 2
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